Sup guys. So to start, I’ve never really been a fan of baseball. As a kid me and the neighborhood kids would play backyard but that was the case for quite literally any sport. My true love is football. Growing up in Michigan, watching Megatron change the game also changed my brain chemistry.
So I just never really had a natural attraction to watching baseball games. Until this year.
This year I started working in landscape and most of my coworkers are hardcore tigers fans. Right before the all star break, I start hearing the chatter of our record and what our projected record could be if we keep pace.. okay.. nice!! Go tigers or whatever! Then the all tige- I mean all star lineup drops. Oh shit I didn’t know we were stacked like that?? Let’s go!!!
And then. August 19th, 2025. My boss tells me about the ending to the Astro’s game and shows me the clip of the walk off walk. My jaw was on the floor. That moment was such an incredibly unique experience in sports, I’ve never seen anything like it.
Since then, ive gone from loosely following the tigers to fighting sleep to watch 16 hits in a 15 game inning. Would love to go tell 15 year old me that lol.
Not much of a point to this other than yeah we may have lost when it counted, but they won me over. Cant wait to go to my first game!